Author talks, movies

The Conant Public Library is celebrating the fourth annual Sterling Reads program with "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie.

As part of the program the library will show classic mystery/ suspense movies on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. including "Murder on the Orient Express," "The Maltese Falcon" and Alfred Hitchcock's "Lifeboat."

On May 16 at 3:30 p.m., the library will present a program from Scarlett Letters, the New England Chapter of Sisters in Crime, titled "We're Not Making This Up." Award-winning authors Kate Flora and Mary-Ann Tirone-Smith will discuss their experiences writing true crime novels.

Flora is the author, along with Police Captain Joseph Loughlin, of "Finding Amy." Amy St. Laurent was 25 when she disappeared from the Old Port section of Portland, Maine one night. Loughlin was a police captain then, and shares details of his thoughts and emotions through the investigation and trial. Flora turns his experiences into a police procedural that was nominated for an Edgar Award in the best factual crime category. More details can be found at www.findingamy.com. Flora is also the author of six mysteries in the Thea Kozak series.

Tirone-Smith wrote "Girls of a Tender Age," her memoir of the disappearance in the 1950's of one of her best friends from their Hartford, Conn. neighborhood. When her body was found, the classroom teacher had her desk removed from the schoolroom and told the children, "We will not mention her name again." She traces the details of the crime and an investigation into the life of the man who committed it. She has also collaborated with her son Jere to write "Dirty Water: A Red Sox Mystery."

The authors will be available to sign books after the program and will have some of their works available for sale. There will also be "to die for" desserts available.